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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 15-25Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-007-9048-7
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Medical humanities; Narrative medicine; Humanism; Anti-humanism
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The call for a narrative medicine has been touted as the cure-all for an increasingly mechanical medicine. It has been claimed that the humanities might create more empathic, reflective, professional and trustworthy doctors. In other words, we can once again humanise medicine through the addition of humanities. in this essay, I explore how the humanities, particularly narrative medicine, appeals to the metaphysical commitments of the medical institution in order to find its justification, and in so doing, perpetuates a dualism of humanity that would have humanism as the counterpoint to the biopsy-chosociologisms of our day.
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